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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

Alan Watts

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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